To experience self-judgment coupled with self-shame, I would suspect, is an almost universal aspect of experiencing borderline personality disorder (BPD) of any variation. And for a good reason, since a person suffering from BPD has typically been on the receiving end of so much critical/judgmental feedback for many years because of his or her difficulties regulating emotions. In other words, and perhaps on thousands of occasions, a person with BPD has been told that “they are doing it badly,” or “wrongly,” or “irrationally,” or that they “shouldn’t think that way,” or “shouldn’t feel that way,” etc., so that it becomes ingrained in them, even indoctrinated in them and hardened into “belief.” Experiencing repeated types of feedback of this nature subsequently also sets in motion an automatic internal feedback system of a similar variety (i.e., don’t worry mom or dad, brother or sister, friend or enemy, I’ll take over from here and do it to myself, and my brain will also do it to me on its own!!).

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